Re: [Bluez-devel] Encryption, authentication with Bluez

Marcel Holtmann
2004-05-05T12:59:57Z

Hi Julien,

> With the hciconfig tool, authentication and encryption can be switch to
> on/off.
> But if I well understood, this affects the local device and therefore
> every future connection.

if you switch auth and encrypt on with hciconfig or in hcid.conf then
you are in security mode 3.

> Is there any way to have two connections, one using authentication and
> not the other?

This is security mode 2 (also called service level security) and of
course this is possible. You can trigger auth or switch encryption with
hcitool.

Regards

Marcel